Improvement in railway gates



idnitt rztin @anni @dan SIMEON HEATWOLE, 0F BRIDGEWATER,VIRGINIA.A

Letters raient No. 114,940, dated may 16,1811.

`IMPROVEMENT IN RAILWAY GATES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making parl: f thelume.

To all whom it 'may conce-rn 1 Be it known that I, SIMEON H. HEArwoLn,of Bridgewater, in the county of Rockingham and in the -State ofVirginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in RailroadGate; and do hereby declare that' the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanyingdrawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of.this specification.

' The nature of .my invention consists in the construction andarrangement of a railroad gate, as will be hereinafter more fully setforth.

In order to enable others skilled in` the art to which my inventionappertains to make andv use the same, I

- will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referringto the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, andFigure 2 a plan view. A A represent the rails of the track, and

Y Y B B the gates, which move in frames or guides C O crosswise overthetrack.

Along the inner side of one of the railsA are laid two Alevers,`l) D,one on each side of the gate, said levers Y being pivoted at their outerends, and free to move up and-down at their inner ends.

0n the under side of each of the levers D, near .the inner end, is aprojection, a, which rests in a groove orrecess onv an arm, b, extendingfrom a rocking shaft, E, said shaft being placed 'under the track andparallel withit.

' On the outer side of the rocking shaft E is a long weighted arm, G,which turns the shaft far enough so that the levers D D will be, for acertain distance from their inner ends, slightly above the track.

On the underside of the same shaft is anotherv arm, d, to the lower endof which is pivoted a har, H, which connects with the 'lower end of alever, I, said lever being pivoted to one of the frames, 4O, and itsupper end provided with a pin inserted in a slot on oneof the gates B.

The other frame has a similar lever, I', pivoted to it, and connectedwith the .other gate in the same uianner'; and the lower end of thislever is, by a rod, f, connected with the connecting-bar H', vas shownin iig 1 throws the gates B Btogether, and, when any pressure comes uponeither of the levers D, such as whenv cars pass over, when the flangesof the wheel will press the levers down, the gates are thrown open uutilthe pressure is removed, when the weighted arm Witnesses EDM. F. BROWN,0. L. Evnn'r.-

It will readily be seen that the weighted arm G y

